All 3 Uses of
tacit
in
The Crying of Lot 49
- But Gennaro ends on a note most desperate, probably for its original audience a real shock, because it names at last the name Angelo did not and Niccolo tried to: He that we last as Thurn and Taxis knew Now recks no lord but the stiletto's Thorn, And Tacit lies the gold once-knotted horn.†
Chpt 3tacit = implied
- And Tacit lies the gold once-knotted horn, Oedipa remembered.†
Chpt 4 *
- " 'He that we last as Thurn and Taxis knew,' " recited Bortz," 'Now recks no lord but the stiletto's Thorn,/And Tacit lies the gold once-knotted horn.'†
Chpt 6
Definition:
implied or understood, but not expressed directly